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Often-overlooked bronze and marble plaques mark where the corpses of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and the other Alamo casualties were burned in a big bonfire by the victorious Mexicans. Marker was moved; pyre was nearby.

Two blocks south of the Alamo. On the south side of E. Commerce St. midway between Alamo Plaza and Bowie St. The plaques are set into a low wall along the sidewalk, just east of the crosswalk leading across the street to a parking garage.

Located directly across the street from the parking garage of the shops at Rivercenter. The inscription on the original marble plaque reads:

"On this spot bodies of heroes slain at the Alamo were burned on a funeral pyre. Fragments of the bodies were afterward buried here. This tablet is the gift of relatives of Green B. Jemision and of other friends. - De Zavala Chapter Texas Landmarks Assn."